{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68818 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-68818 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 13 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68818 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-68818 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 13 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68818 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68818/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68818/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-68818","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68818/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-68818","record":{"aliases":["AZL-74408","BELL-CVE-2025-68818","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68818","GHSA-cxrp-wrc5-9jxv","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-68818","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-68818","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68818"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A missing type check in the qla2xxx SCSI driver causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: Revert \"scsi: qla2xxx: Perform lockless command completion in abort path\"\n\nThis reverts commit 0367076b0817d5c75dfb83001ce7ce5c64d803a9.\n\nThe commit being reverted added code to __qla2x00_abort_all_cmds() to\ncall sp-\u003edone() without holding a spinlock.  But unlike the older code\nbelow it, this new code failed to check sp-\u003ecmd_type and just assumed\nTYPE_SRB, which results in a jump to an invalid pointer in target-mode\nwith TYPE_TGT_CMD:\n\nqla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-d034:8: qla24xx_do_nack_work create sess success\n  0000000009f7a79b\nqla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-5003:8: ISP System Error - mbx1=1ff5h mbx2=10h\n  mbx3=0h mbx4=0h mbx5=191h mbx6=0h mbx7=0h.\nqla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-d01e:8: -\u003e fwdump no buffer\nqla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-f03a:8: qla_target(0): System error async event\n  0x8002 occurred\nqla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-00af:8: Performing ISP error recovery -\n  ha=0000000058183fda.\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\nPF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode\nPF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0010 [#1] SMP\nCPU: 2 PID: 9446 Comm: qla2xxx_8_dpc Tainted: G           O       6.1.133 #1\nHardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X11SPL-F, BIOS 4.2 12/15/2023\nRIP: 0010:0x0\nCode: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90001f93dc8 EFLAGS: 00010206\nRAX: 0000000000000282 RBX: 0000000000000355 RCX: ffff88810d16a000\nRDX: ffff88810dbadaa8 RSI: 0000000000080000 RDI: ffff888169dc38c0\nRBP: ffff888169dc38c0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000045\nR10: ffffffffa034bdf0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88810800bb40\nR13: 0000000000001aa8 R14: ffff888100136610 R15: ffff8881070f7400\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88bf80080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000010c8ff006 CR4: 00000000003706e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die+0x4d/0x8b\n ? page_fault_oops+0x91/0x180\n ? trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x38/0x1a0\n ? exc_page_fault+0x391/0x5e0\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n __qla2x00_abort_all_cmds+0xcb/0x3e0 [qla2xxx_scst]\n qla2x00_abort_all_cmds+0x50/0x70 [qla2xxx_scst]\n qla2x00_abort_isp_cleanup+0x3b7/0x4b0 [qla2xxx_scst]\n qla2x00_abort_isp+0xfd/0x860 [qla2xxx_scst]\n qla2x00_do_dpc+0x581/0xa40 [qla2xxx_scst]\n kthread+0xa8/0xd0\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThen commit 4475afa2646d (\"scsi: qla2xxx: Complete command early within\nlock\") added the spinlock back, because not having the lock caused a\nrace and a crash.  But qla2x00_abort_srb() in the switch below already\nchecks for qla2x00_chip_is_down() and handles it the same way, so the\ncode above the switch is now redundant and still buggy in target-mode.\nRemove it.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"scsi: Revert \"scsi: qla2xxx: Perform lockless command completion in abort path\"","id":"CVE-2025-68818","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"media: dvb-usb: dtv5100: fix out-of-bounds in dtv5100_i2c_msg()","id":"CVE-2025-68819"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_tree_connect_put under concurrency","id":"CVE-2025-68817"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-01-13","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A missing type check in the qla2xxx SCSI driver causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68818/"}